Restaurants

Coal Rooms

But if you’re very, very good, he’ll give you Coal Rooms – a grill restaurant and café cooked up by ex-Smokehouse chef, Sam Bryant, and the team behind Old Spike Roastery.

They’ve set up shop in the Grade II-listed former ticket office of Peckham Rye station, now restored to its former glory and, naturally, fitted with a sunken open kitchen boasting a bespoke, coal-fired robata grill. Up front, you’ll find a relaxed café area that converts into a bar come the evening, while the back of the restaurant hosts a candlelit, Victorian-tiled private dining room that doubles as an in-house bakery and butchery through the day.

Mornings here kick off with hearty breakfasts like scrambled eggs with sriracha, cheese, and hot dog onions, alongside a coffee-cured bacon sandwich. There’s a huge emphasis on sustainability, so ingredients are pinched and pilfered from dish to dish – later in the day, they serve up flatbreads and sandwiches made with leftover whey from their cheese suppliers, sporting fillings like crab rarebit, egg yolk and samphire, and pig’s cheek with XO sauce and crackling.